To:F. E. DZERZHINSKY

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Copiesto Comrade Rykov and Comrade Tsyurupa

ComradeDzerzhinsky:

Pleaseinform me—in thebriefestform—whether
anything is being done and how quickly to carry out the C.L.D.
decision on classifying the railways in three categories
and closing down the railways in the third category.

Theclosure should be speeded up to the maximum, and
secured quickly and at all costs. How else are we to fight
the
crisis?[1]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.L.D.

[1]Bya C.L.D. decision on October 21, 1921, the railway network
was classified in three categories with respect to supply.

Inreply to Lenin’s inquiry, the People s Commissar for
Railways, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, sent him on May 4, 1922, a detailed
report drawn up at his Commissariat, and also a letter informing
him of implementation of the C.L.D. decision. For Dzerzhinsky’s
letter seeIstorichesky ArkhivNo. 1, 1962, pp. 58–59.